{"40391":{"#nid":"40391","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Tech Alum to Command NASA Shuttle Mission","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ENASA has assigned crew members, including Georgia Tech alum Stephen Frick, to the space shuttle mission that will deliver the European Space Agency\u0027s Columbus Laboratory to the International Space Station.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EA veteran space flier, Frick will command the STS-122 shuttle mission to deliver the lab to the station. Navy Cmdr. Alan G. Poindexter will serve as pilot. Mission specialists include Air Force Col. Rex J. Walheim, Stanley G. Love, Leland D. Melvin and European Space Agency astronaut Hans Schlegel. Poindexter, Love and Melvin will be making their first spaceflight.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESTS-122 will be Frick\u0027s second spaceflight. A native of Gibsonia, Pa., he served as pilot of shuttle mission STS-110, a flight to the station in 2002. He is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md., and the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, Calif. Poindexter, a Pasadena, Calif., native, also has a master\u0027s from the Naval Postgraduate School and a bachelor\u0027s from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWalheim, who considers San Carlos, Calif., his hometown, also flew on shuttle mission STS-110 in 2002 and is a veteran of two spacewalks. He has a bachelor\u0027s from the University of California, Berkeley, and a master\u0027s from the University of Houston. Melvin is a native of Lynchburg, Va., and has a bachelor\u0027s from the University of Richmond and a master\u0027s from the University of Virginia, Charlottesville. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ELove, a Eugene, Ore., native, has a bachelor\u0027s from Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, Calif., and a master\u0027s and doctorate from the University of Washington. Schlegel, a native of Aachen, Germany, has a master\u0027s degree from the University of Aachen. His first flight was on shuttle mission STS-55 in 1993. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Georgia Tech alum Stephen Frick will command a NASA mission to the International Space Station.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Stephen Frick will command Columbus mission"}],"uid":"15436","created_gmt":"2006-07-20 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:01:42","author":"Automator","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2006-07-20T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2006-07-20T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"40392":{"id":"40392","type":"image","title":"Stephen Frick","body":null,"created":"1449174185","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:23:05","changed":"1475894336","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:38:56","alt":"Stephen Frick","file":{"fid":"189977","name":"tku26969.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tku26969_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tku26969_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":17472,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/tku26969_0.jpg?itok=8zIqGORJ"}}},"media_ids":["40392"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www11.jsc.nasa.gov\/Bios\/htmlbios\/frick.html","title":"Frick\\\u0027s NASA bio"}],"groups":[{"id":"1183","name":"Home"}],"categories":[{"id":"130","name":"Alumni"},{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[{"id":"1336","name":"Astronaut"},{"id":"408","name":"NASA"},{"id":"169710","name":"shuttle"},{"id":"170788","name":"Stephen Frick"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003ELisa Grovenstein\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommunications \u0026amp; Marketing\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=lgrovenste3\u0022\u003EContact Lisa Grovenstein\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-894-8835\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["lisa.grovenstein@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}